League of Women Voters Forum - DH Cable

I want to thank the League of Women Voters for holding the televised forum and I was happy to participate.  It can be seen on your local government access channel at 1:00 pm and again at 7:00 pm on most days.  I hope you will watch and I know you will want to vote for me to continue my work in the clerk's office.

REMEMBER TO VOTE ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 2nd.  Polls are opened from 7:00 am until 8:00 pm and absentee ballots are still available at City Hall in my office and you can apply and cast your ballot if you will be unavailable on voting day to make it to the polls. Here I am casting my absentee ballot since I will be hard at work on Election Day . . .  I know I made the right choice!

League of Women Voters Forum - Voter's Guide

This Wednesday, July 13, at 7 pm: a Candidate Forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters will be held at Dearborn Heights City Hall.  I am looking forward to participating.
Please click on link below to read the League's published Voter's Guide:

http://www.lwvddh.org/voterguide.pdf

Yard Signs are displayed

Thanks Mike!

Ron is hard at work on the signs, the "supervisors" are under the table!

Folded, stapled, ready to deliver.

Louie the Campaign Dog!

Lots of signs on this street, wonder who lives here?

After my team of volunteers spent hours folding and stapling signs, July 3^rd finally arrived and we were ready to go out and deliver them to all the wonderful people who agreed to display signs for me and support my campaign to continue my work as the Dearborn Heights City Clerk.  I can’t thank all the people enough who worked on this project, especially my wife who designed the signs and organized the volunteers and the residents of Dearborn Heights who are displaying them for me.   A special thanks to all who contributed to this effort, namely Karen, Joe, Kathy, Ron, Kenny, Kristin and Gary.  A big, big thanks to Mike.  THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!  I love you all.  If you are willing to have a sign displayed in your yard or business, please complete the form below and we will deliver one to you.  As of today, there are only 29 more days until the Primary on August 2nd.  The campaign is going great and I have no doubt that my name will be on the ballot come November 8.

Absentee Ballots are in the mail.

Well folks, the absentee ballots have been issued.  Over 2,000 ballots were sent out on Wednesday of this week.  A big thank you to our wonderful and beloved “Pit Crew”, namely Exie, Annette, Patsy, Al, Donna, Dennis and Greg.  With their assistance, the Clerk’s office has completed nearly all of the necessary preparations for the August 2^nd election.  The voting machines are being readied and have already been tested.  The poll workers’ supplies have been prepared for the big day.  We are in the process of finalizing the poll worker schedules and should have it completed in the very near future.  Please remember to vote on August 2^nd and if you are an absentee voter, please remember to return your ballot and sign the outer envelope.  Absentee ballot applications are still available at my office or by clicking the link at the right.  Once again, a big THANK YOU, to all who have made this process run so smoothly. 

Absentee Ballot Information

Absentee Ballots will be arriving in the mail this week for those of you who have requested them.  We ask that you please be sure to sign the outer envelope where indicated.  Failure to do so will result in your ballot being returned to you for signature.  If you need an absentee ballot and have not already applied for one, we are still accepting applications.  You may click on the link to the right to start the process or call the clerk’s office at 791-3430 for futher information.

I am filled with gratitude for family and friends . . . old and new.

“Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”  Melody Beattie

A huge THANK YOU to all of the people who attended or contributed so generously to my fundraiser this week.  We had a large turnout and I was touched  by the many people who came from different phases of my life, old and new, to support me in this endeavor.   If there was ever any doubt that I was making the right decision when I decided to throw my hat into the political ring, it was erased on Wednesday night when I realized all the people who believe in me.  I had childhood friends like Gerry Sitko and Dan Bernard who I have known since the first grade.  There were family members and many of my neighbors of 21 years of living in Dearborn Heights and attending St. Sabina and Divine Child.  AFSCME Council 25, my union of most of my adult life, was well represented by Rick Johnson as was my current Wayne County retirees’ union by Bettye Misuraca.   Friends from the American Legion were there as well as the many new friends I have made in the city of Dearborn Heights.  I appreciate the many elected officials from both the city and Wayne County who took the time to attend or were generous enough to give donations.  With a little over a month to go until election day, I am confident we will have a victory come August 2^nd and I have these people and many more to thank.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY

"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement." -- Antonio Gramsci

A day of reflection, some sadness and great joy for me.  I am sad by not having my own father here today.  He went on to heaven way too young back in 1962.  I am also disappointed and sad that this is the first Father's Day since 1991 that my own son is not going to spend the day with me.  On the other hand, there is great joy in the fact that he is presently in Russia, studying at the Moscow Art Theater.  As many of you know, Gregory would like to pursue a career in acting and to study at the Moscow Art Theater is a great privilege and exceptional opportunity for him.  A father's greatest joy, in my opinion, is being able to provide the best chance for his children to be successful in life and for this I am grateful to the Almighty Father.  

May God Bless everyone today as we celebrate Father's Day